mistress of the vatican.pdf - End Time Deception

Eleanor Herman
Most wealthy people did it, working with their favorite artist to design
sculptures and picking out the colored marbles and Bible phrases with
the eagerness of a modern housewife designing a new kitchen. It was,
after all, the only way people could make sure they had the tomb they
wanted, especially when they couldn’t count on their cheap nasty relatives.
Olimpia would not build her tomb in Rome where it would be lost
among the throng of marble monuments competing for attention. She
would be laid to rest in the Church of San Martino, in the principality
where she had done so much for dowerless girls. Unfortunately, the
four-hundred-year-old church was in a sad state of decay. Olimpia commissioned
Francesco Borromini to shore up the sagging structure, refurbish
the interior, and replace the crumbling bell towers with majestic
new ones in the medieval style. As the finishing touch, he would design
her tomb. They would bury her at the high altar, beneath a simple yet
elegant pavement of gold and red marble, with a black border around it
and the white Pamphili dove holding the green olive sprig in its mouth.
In the upper corners were ghastly huge yellow skulls with red eyes and
ragged hair that could only have been designed by the mournful Borromini.
The slab was about twenty feet square, and each of the four
corners was adorned with the gold eight-pointed Maidalchini star.
The text reads:
Olimpia Maidalchini Pamphili
Princess of San Martino
Aware of human mortality
Anticipating the last day
With the thought of spiritual immortality
Here chose to erect her sepulcher
As religious piety suggested to her
To feel she was protected in life as in death
By the eternal aid of the Holy Spirit
And to ask at the same time
Abundant prayers and intercession with the Lord
From the inhabitants of her feud
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